Western Rite
There is a long history of the Western Rite in ROCOR, although attitudes toward it have varied, and the number of Western Rite parishes is relatively small. Currently there is a Western Rite monastery in Tasmania, Australia—the St. Petroc Monastery. The Christ the Saviour Monastery, founded in 1993 in Rhode Island and moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 2008 (see main article for references) has incorporated the Oratory of Our Lady of Glastonbury as its monastery chapel. The oratory had previously been a mission of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America but since October 2007 has been a part of ROCOR. There are a few other parishes that either use the Western Rite exclusively, or in part. An American parish, St Benedict of Nursia, in Oklahoma City, serves both the Western Rite and the Byzantine Rite.
In 2011, the ROCOR declared all of its Western Rite Parishes to be a 'Vicariate', parallel to the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, and established a website.
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